On the coasts of Chile, a fleet of 19 ships will meet next month in the context of Operation UNITAS, the largest naval exercise in the Americas, which was created 65 years ago to improve hemispheric defense against the threat of Soviet submarines. That reality may sound distant now, but it is closer than we […]
At the end of April, an AthenaLab team carried out a working visit to the Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic, where they met with local civil and military authorities for an on-the-ground look at the geopolitical situation of the southern tip of South America. In these meetings, delegates discussed the current political situation following […]
After 200 years of bilateral relations, both countries need to reassess how to collaborate on common goals including a complex maritime environment in Latin America’s southernmost waters.
A new study has shed light on the security crisis unfolding in northern Chile, a border region pivotal to transnational crime but where state authorities maintain only a minor presence.
The 2020 Defence Strategic Update, recognised that military modernisation in the Indo-Pacific had accelerated faster than envisaged. Regional force modernisation has resulted in the development and deployment of new weapons that challenge Australia’s military capability edge. Expanding cyber capabilities, and the willingness of some countries and non-state actors to use them, are further complicating Australia’s […]
AthenaLab research is cited in InsightCrime article on wood theft.
RUSI, September 8, 2022 Chileans have rejected a radical constitutional proposal, thereby deflating a left-wing tilt. There are lessons in this for all of Latin America. In a resounding outcome in a referendum last Sunday, the people of Chile let it be known that they prefer political moderation. 62% of voters decided to reject in […]
A lack of due diligence, corruption, and a disregard for indigenous rights and the environment have characterized many Chinese infrastructure projects in the region. On December 7, a few days after the third China-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Forum, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released the China-CELAC Joint Action Plan for 2022-2024. It laid […]
The Council on Geostrategy, from the United Kingdom, and AthenaLab, from Chile, are delighted to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), whose purpose is to structure investigative cooperation on topics of common interest to both countries, which as free and open nations, have a confluence of interests and values within the framework […]
Chile is in the midst of an unprecedented constitutional reform programme. But can this process secure the country’s political and economic future, or will it be waylaid by competing demands? The constitutional reform process currently underway in Chile has its immediate origins in the October 2019 social uprising. The riots and protests that broke out at […]
